Washing-machine



(No Model.)

G; MOWRY. WASHING MAGHINB. No. 349,314. Patented Sept. 21, 1886.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE MOWRY, OF DERBY STATION, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,314, dated September 21, 1886 Application filed November 12, 1885. Serial No. 182,569. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MOWRY, of Derry Station, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, have invented a newand Improved Washing-Machine, of which the following is a. full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of washing-machines in which a rocking rubber is used; and the object of my invention is to provide a new and improved washing-machine whichis simple in construction and effective in use, and which is strong and durable.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the rubber being removed and parts being broken out; and Fig. 3 is a face view of part of the rubber.

The box or tub A is provided with legs, and has a semicircular bottom,on which the semicircular strips or ribs B are secured transversely.

The rubber G, which is mounted to rock be tween the two sides of the tub or box A, is formed of the two semicircular side pieces, D, which are united'by the handle E and by the transverse strips F, secured on the semicircular edges of the side pieces. as shown, the ends of the strips F being countersunk in the edges of the side pieces. The several transverse strips F are united by a series of diagonal pieces, G, held between the side edges of the transverse strips,and flush with the inner sides of the same, as shown. The outer surfaces of the strips G are rounded transversely on a semicircular line, and the said rounded parts of the pieces G project from the outer surfaces of the transverse strips, and the ends of the rounded parts of the pieces G lap over the edges of the strips F on the outer surfaces of the same. The diagonal pieces between two strips F all project in the same direction that is, they are parallel and all inclined the same way; but in the next row of inclined pieces the said pieces are inclined in the 0pposite direction, and so on alternately. A very large and perfect rubbing surface is thus formed. The pieces G, forming said rubbingsurface, are held firmly and securely between the strips F, and the water can pass freely through the spaces between the strips F and the pieces G.

In my improved washing-machinethe clothes are not thrown about and beaten, but are rubbed thoroughly between the ribs or strips on the bottom of the tub and the rubber.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A rubber for a washing-machine, constructed with two side pieces united at their curved edges by transverse strips, between the edges of which short diagonal pieces are secured, the pieces of each alternate transverse row of said pieces being inclined in opposite directions, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. A rubber for a washing-machine, constructed with two semicircular side pieces united at the curved edges by transverse strips, between the edges of which diagonal pieces are held, the outer faces of the said diagonal pieces projecting from the outer faces of the transverse strips, and the diagonal pieces of the different rows projecting in different directions, in combination with a tub having a semicircular bottom provided with the transverse semicircular strips or ribs, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. A rubber for a washing-machine, constructed of two semicircular side pieces united along the curved edges by transverse strips, between which diagonal pieces are secured, thesaid pieces havingtheir outer faces rounded and projecting from the faces of the transverse strips, and the ends of the said pieces lapping on the faces of the transverse strips, substantially as herein shown and described.

' GEORGE MOWRY.

Witnesses:

I. E. LAUFFER, S. J. POTTS. 

